Power Persuasion, and Language: A Cririque of the Segmentary Model in the Middle East
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Journal of Middle East Studies
- Vol. 19 (1) , 77-102
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743800031664
Abstract
A famous definition of power reads: In studying political organization, we have to deal with the maintenance or establishment of social order … by the organized exercise of coercive authority through the use, or the possibility of use, of physical force.Keywords
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